United in Poverty Action

A Community Update

In 2018, United Way Halifax, in partnership with Halifax Regional Municipality, produced Building Poverty Solutions – a report that identified how poverty impacts our community, who it impacts, and the potential solutions for addressing it.

Since then, our community has changed significantly. United in Poverty Action highlights successes since the last report, what has changed and who is still impacted most by poverty. It also includes key trends we’re watching and a set of community measures we’re committed to monitoring over time.

United in Poverty Action Report

Glossary of Terms

How to Be An Ally

Are you a PARTNER or an ALLY in poverty action?

By signing on as a partner or an ally, you’re helping United Way Halifax raise awareness and address poverty across HRM.

As a Partner your organization is one or more of the following:

An organization funded by United Way Halifax
A collaborator on a joint poverty action effort, such as the East Coast Public Policy Training Institute, or the HRM Affordable Community Land Trust
An organization whose work helps improve one or more of the UWH Community Level Measures found in the report
An organization that will collect data to demonstrate impact against the UWH Community Level Measures
An organization that will focus a portion of their investment in community to help improve one or more of the UWH Community Level Measures.

As a partner, we’ll ask you to report your efforts yearly, so that we can share them with the public. United Way Halifax will report back on the Community Level Measures in five years.

SIGN UP AS A PARTNER

As an Ally you are concerned about poverty in HRM and its impacts on people. As an ally, you also:

Seek to understand the systemic and historic causes of poverty
Choose to be empathetic, kind and respectful to people experiencing poverty
Speak up and address misconceptions and misinformation
Use influence and networks to share the United in Poverty Action report
Speak out when actions or intentions by others are hindering progress to address poverty
Encourage empathy, tolerance and kindness in navigating the challenges associated with poverty

SIGN UP AS AN ALLY